Improvement in machines for forming wire bottle-stopper fastenings



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Improvement -in Meichines' for Forming Wire Bottle Stopper 'Fastenings.

115,354, Pa tn'ted May 30,1871.

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improvement in Machines for Forming Wire Bottle Stopper Fastenings;

N0. 115,354. Patanted May 30,1871.

3 Sheets--Sheet3. HENRY M. PUTNAM.

Improvement in- Machines for FormingWire Bottle Stopper Fastenings.

Patented May-30, 1871;.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,354, dated May 30, 1871.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HENRY W. PUTNAM, of

Bennington, in the countyof Bennington and State of Vermont, have invented and made an Improvement in Machines for Bending Wire Loops for Bottle-Stopper Fastenings;

andthe following is declared to be a correct description thereof. l

. This invention is for bending up the wire loops that form the neck-bands for securing .the stopper-fastenings to bottles, such as shown in Letters Patent granted to me March 15, 1859. The wire is fed into the machine, bent up into a half-circle, and then twisted to form two eyes for the hinge-pins or projections of the fastening; and such eyes are bent around the fastenings themselves, or around movable pins, so that the loop is in a condition to be appliedto the fastening and subsequently to the bottle; thereby the loops can be made upon the fastening, or separately for application in place of neck-bands that may be injured or broken in use, the fastening still remaining in a condition for use with a new neck-band; for these fastenings that go over the bottle-corks are of much heavier andstronger wire than the neck-bands, to the bendingof which neck-bands this present improvement relates. j

In the drawing, Figure l is a plan of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section at the line as m. Fig. 3 is a side-view of the loop and holding mechanism. Fig. 4 is a plan of the parts in the position which theyoccupy as the wire to be bent is introduced. Fig. 5 is a plan, and Fig. 6 a side View of the means for bending the loops separately from thefastenings. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the loop separately, and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the bottle-fastenings and neck-band or loop complete. l j

The driving-shaft a is actuated periodically by hand or otherwise, and acts, through the gearing b, shafts o, and rollers d, to feed in the proper amount of wire e, and also, through the gearing f, to revolvethe twisting-fingers i '11. The carrier 9 is made to slide in the bed It by the action of the treadle h, or lever, and at the end of said carrier 9 is a projection, 3, over in, passes above the fastening k and across the semicircular form 5, beneath an overhanging flange. The shear m is operated by the move ment of the carrier 9 and cuts off the wire, and the stationary guide-rods 'n n bend the wire back to form a loop around the form 5 and above the projecting hinge ends 6 of the fastener 7a. This form 5 is made movable, so as to vary the length of the neck-band wire in the semicircular loop between the hinge ends 6. The slide g'is constructed and moved in such a manner that when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the hinge ends 6 are on line, or nearly so, with the axis of the fingers m and hencewhcn the said fingers t are rotated, the ends of the wire loop t" are sweptaround the said hinge ends 6 to form eyes, as seen in said Figs. 1 and 8. The slide 9, as it is brought into the position shown in Fig. 1, confines the fastening 70 between itself and the stationary gage s, and on the return movement of the slide g the fastening is drawn 0E and drops through a hole in the bed h.

The devices shown in Figs. 5 and 6 are for making the same neck-band loops separately from the fastening. In this case the pins 12, that project from the sides of the spring-jaws t, serve as punches, around which the eyes are bent in the wire loop 2'. The stationary cam 11. causes these sprin g-j aws t to spread apart as the slide g is moved to the position of Figs. 1 and 4:, and in this position the wire is bent by the revolution of the fingers i,- and as the slide 9 is drawn back the jaws it close, drawing the pins 12 out of the eyes, and allowing the hook 'I) to draw the neck-band off the former 5, so that it may drop.

It is to be understood that when the parts are employed for making the separate loops 6, Fig. 7, the machine is automatic, and may be driven by power; but when the loopsare bent around the hinges of the fastenings, said fastenings have to be properly inserted in the machine, which may be done by hand or otherwise, and the machine driven byhand or power.

I claim as my invention- 1. The fingers t, revolved around the pins or v men hinges 6 or 12, in combination with the form 4. The form 5, made adjustable to vary the 5 and the apparatus for supplying the wire to length of the neck-band between the eyes 6, be bent, substantially as set forth. as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The springjaws t and cam u, in combina- Signed by me this 30th day of March, A. D. tion with the fingers t and form 5, as and. for 1871. the purposes set forth. HENRY W. PUTNAM.

3. The fingers t 2', applied substantially as shown, for bending the two eyes of the neck- Witnesses: band of a bottle-fastening simultaneously, as GEO. D. WALKER, set forth. CHAS. E. SMITH. 

